October 4, 2018 / Front Page

Washington-Wilkes Comprehensive High School will be abuzz with homecoming activities starting Monday, October 8, and culminate at Tiger Stadium with the crowning of the Homecoming Queen during halftime of the game between the Tigers and GMC on Friday More...

A variety of charges were filed in arrests made in Wilkes County during the past month. The listed arrests are taken from the limited information in arrest reports provided by local law enforcement officials, and no arrests are left out. More...

Anna is twelve years old in Chapter One of Manhattan Beach. The reader likes her right away; she loves her small family, especially her disabled younger sister Lydia. Lydia was somehow damaged at birth and cannot move her twisted body or speak. More...

In all likelihood, a hundred years from now, the incumbent generation will be reflecting on their “good old days.” Just as it is now with those long in the tooth remembering their distant past. More...

Funeral services for Nina Marie Broadway Boatwright, 69, of Glenn Road in Rayle were held at 11 a.m. Saturday, September 29, 2018, at Sardis Baptist Church with Rev. Jim Newsome officiating. Interment followed in the church cemetery. More...

The Wills Memorial Hospital Auxiliary Membership Tea honored the top three Volunteers of the Year at its meeting Tuesday, September 25, at the home of Jane and Jim Bundy on East Robert Toombs Avenue. More...

Katie Elizabeth Franklin and Samuel Tyson Miller of Marietta, Oklahoma, exchanged vows in a beautiful double-ring ceremony at Higher Ground Oklahoma in Ardmore, Oklahoma, on Sunday, September 16, at two o’clock in the afternoon. Lindle K. More...

Today (Thursday, October 4) a milestone expansion will begin at the Washington-Wilkes Airport as groundbreaking ceremonies take place for the long-awaited extension of the runway from 4,000 to 5,000 feet. More...

All four of the Vogtle 3 and 4 project co-owners (MEAG Power, Georgia Power, Oglethorpe Power, and Dalton Utilities) have voted to continue construction of the two new nuclear units near Waynesboro, Georgia. More...

Friends, family, and colleagues came together Tuesday afternoon for Lillie Crowe on the occasion of her retirement as the Bartram Trail Regional Library System Director, a post she has held since 2006. More...

Dollar General’s newest store at 903 E. Robert Toombs Avenue in Washington is now open and will celebrate the store’s official grand opening this Saturday, October 6, at 8 a.m. with free prizes and special deals. More...

The Square Cafe co-owner Bambi Arnold (with scissors) was joined by her business partners and guests for a ribbon cutting and open house hosted by the Washington-Wilkes Chamber of Commerce on Friday, More...

As usual and as expected the archrivalry game between the Washington Wilkes Tigers and the Lincoln County Red Devils last Friday was anybody’s game and a nail-biter right down to the last micro-second. More...

It wasn’t a good week for the Washington-Wilkes Lady Tiger softball team. The offense was mostly non-existent as the girls were blanked by both opponents they faced in the region tournament. However, all is not lost. More...

After The Revelation to John about the salvation of the Israelites, who believed in God’s salvation for mankind, we are told about the Gentile world who will be saved from sin because they came to believe in God through Jesus Christ who died on More...

We received an email this week about a series which began airing on Georgia Public Broadcasting on Monday, September 10, called Saving Grace: Southern History Through the Eyes of Our Rural Churches. More...